Webinar: 2016 in review - case law from the UK Courts & EPO Boards of Appeal
Author: Avi Freeman
IP News
February 2017
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In this webinar, partners Avi Freeman and Jon Markham reviewed the important cases from the UK courts and the EPO Boards of Appeal in 2016.
Highlights from the UK Courts included:
- the law relating to indirect infringement in Actavis v Eli Lilly
- the interpretation of Swiss claims in the Lyrica series of judgments
- the latest cases on construction, novelty and obviousness.
Highlights from the EPO Boards of Appeal included:
- the latest decisions on poisonous divisionals, inventive step and EPO procedure.
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